Genre vs Plot - What's the difference?
genre | plot |
A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
* Alexander Pope
An area or land used for building on or planting on.
A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
* Denham
Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
* Milton
A plan; a purpose.
* Jeremy Taylor
To conceive (a crime, etc).
To trace out (a graph or diagram).
To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
* Carew
To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.
As nouns the difference between genre and plot
is that genre is while plot is the course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.As a verb plot is
to conceive (a crime, etc).genre
English
Noun
(en noun)- The still-life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.
- The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre .
Synonyms
* kind * type * class * See alsoDerived terms
* subgenre * literary genre * film genre * dramatic genre * theatrical genreAnagrams
* * * ----plot
English
Noun
(en noun)- If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.
- The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
- The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot .
- I have overheard a plot of death.
- O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
- a man of much plot
- And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
- no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls
Synonyms
* (course of a story) storyline * (area) parcel * (secret plan) conspiracy, schemeDerived terms
* Gunpowder Plot * lose the plot * plotless * subplot * the plot thickens/plot thickensVerb
(plott)- They had ''plotted a robbery.
- They ''plotted'' the number of edits per day.
- Every five minutes they ''plotted'' their position.
- This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
- ''They were plotting against the king.